Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

                                                                                                                                                                ~ Fay Wattleton

Top Forty Under 40

It is an honor to share with you, our readers, 40 Canadians that have made it to high positions, or came up with brilliant new business ideas, leaders in many industries, and agents of change. You may come across an organization that excites you, an organization that you would like to become a part of....send them a congratulations card, and follow up...what a concept!

Happy reading!

Tali Nizic, President & CEO 

The program is designed to promote mentorship and professional development by introducing these leaders to the established business community and by promoting them as role models for young Canadians.In choosing the recipients, the Board considers the nominees' achievements in the following areas:

• Vision and Leadership Innovation and Achievement Impact Community Involvement and Contribution
• Growth / Development Strategy

• Trevor Brooks Adey Chief Executive Officer, Consilient

  Murad Al-Katib, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saskcan Pulse Trading

  Matthew Anderson, Vice President and Chief Information Officer ,University Health Network

  Gurval Caer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Blast Radius

  Christian Couturier, Director General, National Research Council Canada - Institute for Information Technology

  Duncan Dee, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Administrative, ACE Aviation Holdings Inc.

  Sarah Dennis, Vice President and Director, The Halifax Herald Limited, Publisher of The Chronicle Herald

  Victor DiRisio, Executive Vice President, Supply Chain, Indigo/Chapters Books and Music

  Victor G. Dodig, Executive Vice President, Wealth Management, CIBC 

  Daryl Dolynny,  Associate/Owner Shoppers Drug Mart President and Chief Executive Officer Aurora World Corporation

  Dr. Stephen S.G. Ferguson Director and Scientist - Cell Biology Research Group - Robarts Research Institute
  Associate Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology - The University of Western Ontario

  Luc Filiatreault Chairman of the Board ExelTech Aerospace

  Tim Fowler Vice President, Strategy and Business Development Pepsi-QTG Canada

  Curwin W. Friesen President and Chief Operating Officer Friesens Corporation

  Dr. David J. Granville Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Biochemistry
  iCapture Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia

  Geoff Green Director and Founder Students on Ice Expeditions

  Pamela Griffith-Jones Vice President, Leisure Products Division Canadian Tire Corporation

  Charles Guay President and Chief Operating Officer National Bank Securities  

  Antonio (Toni) Guimaraes Co-Founder and President ExcelHR (Ottawa) and AltisHR (Toronto) 

  Grant Henderson Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Marketing & Strategy Convedia Corporation

  Peter Kendall President The Schad Foundation

  Glen LeBlanc Vice President, Finance and Controller Aliant Inc.

  Dr. Richard Leblanc Assistant Professor, Corporate Governance, Law and Ethics, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies York University

  Dr. Khristinn Kellie Leitch Chair Children's Hospital of Western Ontario Chief Paediatric Surgery,
  Schulich School of Medicine
  The University of Western Ontario Chair, Health Sector MBA Program Ivey School of Business

  Mike MacBain President, TD Securities
  Executive Vice President, TD Bank Financial Group

  Jason Martin President Navantis

  Paul Massara President, Canada Direct Energy

  Joe Mattell Country Leader, Canada BearingPoint

  Ashif Mawji Chief Executive Officer Upside Software Inc.

  Steven A. Mayer Managing Director, Head of Communications, Media and Technology Scotia Capital Inc.

  Parker Mitchell and George Roter Co-Founders and Co-Chief Executive Officers Engineers Without Borders

  Brennan Mulcahy Chief Executive Officer The Energy Savings Group

  David S. Ogden President and Chief Executive Officer ProJetCorp Realty Inc.

  Dr. Simon Pimstone President and Chief Executive Officer Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.

  Joseph Quarin Chief Financial Officer BFI Canada Income Fund

  Kevin Salvadori Executive Vice President, TELUS Business Transformation and Chief Information Officer TELUS

  Lucas Skoczkowski Chief Executive Officer Redknee Inc.

  Eira Thomas President and Chief Executive Officer Stornoway Diamond Corporation

  Tamara Vrooman Deputy Minister of Finance and Secretary to Treasury Board Government of British Columbia

• David Wilkins President and Chief Executive Officer Vertigoxmedia 

The ninth annual selection of the brightest achievers on the rise, complied by Report on Business Magazine, Globe and MailFriday, April 30, 2004By Andre Mayer, Matthew McKinnon, Christopher

This is a magazine that chronicles corporate Canada's highs and lows, and business was on a roll last year. Once a year, however, we also get to cast a much wider net. The ninth annual selection of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 reminds us that innovation and success come in many different forms.

Once again, the honorees were selected by a panel of 31 business and community leaders (see page 84) assembled by The Caldwell Partners International, the first and largest executive search firm in Canada. Caldwell received more than 1,400 nominations. The panel then rated nominees on five criteria: vision and leadership, innovation and achievement, community involvement, impact, and growth and development strategy.The honorees come from many fields, and from across the country. They include Bay Street hotshots such as CIBC investment banker Dan Daviau; Alberta oil patch winners such as Paramount Energy Trust president Susan Riddell Rose; and achievers who are about as far from the corporate mainstream as you can get, such as Gregor Robertson, co-founder of Vancouver-based juice maker Happy Planet, and medical researcher Proton Rahman from St. John's. All have inspiring stories.

To nominate someone for next year's Top 40, please call 1-800-688-5540 or visit http://www.top40award-canada.org/.

• Eric Schneider, 39 President and CEO, Redwood Custom Communications Inc., Toronto David Ossip, 37 President and CEO, Workbrain Corp., Toronto Allan McLeod, 34 President and CEO, Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba, Winnipeg Dr. David A. Jaffray, 37 Head of Radiation Physics, Princess Margaret Hospital; Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto Patrice Gervais, 39 President and Chief Executive Officer, Dinec Inc., Louiseville, Que. Michel Bissonnette, 37 Executive Producer and Vice-President, Creative, Zone3 Inc., Montreal Shane Bourbonnais, 37 Executive Vice-President, Clear Channel Entertainment Canada, Vancouver Gilbert Palter, 38 Managing Partner and COO, EdgeStone Capital Partners, Toronto George Gosbee, 34President and CEO, Tristone Capital Inc., Calgary Martine M. Irman, 39 Senior Vice-President/Vice-Chair, Global Foreign Exchange and Money Markets, Trade Finance and Cash Management, TD Securities, Toronto Hana Zalzal, 40 President and Founder, CARGO Cosmetics Corp., Toronto Dr. Prabhat Jha, 38 Canada Research Chair in Health and Development, and Director, Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto/St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto Isabella Pain, 36 Inuit Affairs Officer, Voisey's Bay Nickel Co., Nain, Labrador Marc Kielburger, 27 Executive Director, Leaders Today and Free the Children, Thornhill, Ont. Michael Moskowitz, 33 President and General Manager, PalmOne Canada, Mississauga Frank Geier, 39 President, GFS Canada Group, Richmond, B.C. David Sugarman, 35, CEO, Billy Bee Honey Products Ltd., Toronto Stéphane Gonthier, 37 Vice-President Operations, Eastern Canada, and Corporate Secretary, Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., Laval, Que. Dr. Proton Rahman, 38, Associate Professor of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John's Dr. Ted Sargent, 30, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nortel Networks-Canada Research Chair in Emerging Technologies, University of Toronto Luc Sabbatini, 40, Executive Vice-President, Astral Media Radio Inc., Montreal Donna Lindell, 36, Vice-President, Corporate Communications, Manulife Financial, Toronto Susan L. Riddell Rose, 39, President and COO, Paramount Energy Trust, Calgary Patrick Wilson, 35, President, Blue Water Agencies Ltd., Dartmouth, N.S. Paven Bratch, 40, Founder and CEO, e2e Consumer Direct, Mississauga Darin McLean, 38, President, Atlantic Mobility Products, Bedford, N.S. Jillian Buriak, 36, Professor of Chemistry/Senior Research Officer, University of Alberta/National Institute of Nanotechnology, Edmonton Dr. Peter B. Dirks, 38 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto; Pediatric Neurosurgeon and Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Catherine A. Booth, 39, Vice-President, Capgemini, Toronto Bruno-Marie Béchard, 39 Rector, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Que. Dale S. Wishewan, 35, President and CEO, Booster Juice, Edmonton Gregor Robertson, 39, Founder and Chairman, Happy Planet Foods, Vancouver Michael Hanley, 38, President, Alcan Bauxite and Alumina/Senior Vice-President, Alcan Inc., Montreal Jamie Brown, 37, CEO and Executive Producer, Frantic Films Corp., Winnipeg John Armstrong, 35, Founder and President, Armstrong Partnership Ltd., Toronto Fiona Brinkman, 36, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Jeff McFarlane, 33, President and CEO, IT Xchange, Oakville, Ont. Dr. Shamir Mehta, 39, Associate Professor of Medicine, Interventional Cardiologist, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton
• Dan Daviau, 39, Co-Head, Investment Banking and Head, Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking, CIBC World Markets Inc., Toronto